The Tropical Fruit Forum

I put two in the ground last week.

Those are nice looking! Are those just 1 year old plants?  Glad I ordered them.My order of seeds have shipped Woo-hoo

Just wondering if anyone is growing this one or been able to try the fruit? Looks good 😆

Happy Friday everyone. I just am really shocked how delicios the surinam cherry is after eating 2 miracle fruits. I have 5 red seedlings from home depot out front. 3/5 are ok and 2/5 are very resinous. They aren't great on their own but after consuming 2x Miracle fruits they turn into a real treat. So much that my wife said it was good. I keep going back for more. Amazing! Have a nice day folks!

Quote from: Timbogrow on March 22, 2024, 07:59:56 AM

I used my 15 gal tank setup I got from hobo freight and sprayed everything with sulfur last week. I think the set up would improve with another pump to agitate the solution amd keep it mixed but even with the one pump I was impressed with the coverage it made on the trees. You could always filter the big chunks of sulfur out before adding to the holding chamber. Let us know how it works with fixed plumbing, sounds like a game changer.

Your ideal starting to grow on me I may have been too ambitious thinking I could irrigate 10 trees at a time but I could add a threaded pvc attachment above the cut off valve to be able to couple a hose and spray sulfur for about 3 minutes which would be a gallon as an experiment then potentially more trees

If you have a riding mower then I highly suggest it. I just drive around the trees and spray at the same time. I'll have to time the process next go around. Also a friend of mine did the same thing but he got the 250gal ibc tote and a gas powered pump in the back of his older truck. He has a long garden hose attached to it and says it's been helping a lot with fruit setting on lemon zest.  Not sure the size of your property but I'm sure one of those ways would help.

I used my 15 gal tank setup I got from hobo freight and sprayed everything with sulfur last week. I think the set up would improve with another pump to agitate the solution amd keep it mixed but even with the one pump I was impressed with the coverage it made on the trees. You could always filter the big chunks of sulfur out before adding to the holding chamber. Let us know how it works with fixed plumbing, sounds like a game changer.

My leaves are always a twisted, gnarly mess, not like the clean, green, straight leaves I've seen others have.
Any ideas?

Thanks

Besides the aphids under the leaves it could also be the wind distorting the leaves.

Prices and taxes are disgusting. Time for another tea party in Boston!!!

"Very cool monstera plants! I have a small one but have yet to try the fruits."

Timbogrow, thank you. Hope your grow well and produce fruit soon.  Make sure you grow the right variety. This link for ID it.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBprGjzCSGg

Thank you, although I probably won't be producing any monstera fruit immediately there is lots of other trees/plants starting to produce. I think I have the large form, not verigated. It has quite some time left til it produces I would imagine. I was going to get more plants from them but they were sold out when I had a chance to go back to that nursery. It really has been growing slowly and effortlessly in my area. Great looking plant.

Virginia Fruit Grower!

I love the way his videos start with some funny stuff lol

Figured I would start another thread welcoming people to add the link to your fruit tree videos for all of our entertainment.
I created a few shorts of some random plants so far. The grand tour would be quite lengthy so I'm trying to keep them fairly quick.
Here is the link to my jungle https://youtube.com/@Room_for_1_more_fruit_tree?si=ZqlNouSEocbEyEeJ
Anyone can post their link to their videos weather it be a farm in subtropics, gree house in northern USA or even a greenhouse in syberia. No need to worry about stealing a thread or whatever. I'm sure we all would enjoy seeing everyone's efforts and passions.
-happy growing everyone!

The sand where I've been mulching for 3-4 years looks amazing. I'm thinking of trying a fertilizer using the mangos on the big prolific producing tree that is very mediocre in flavor on the other mango trees. I left a bunch under there to rot last year and the tree looks amazing and is full of flowers now. That was the only input it recieved was some fruit left to rot. I might even try this with the extra starfruit. I could imagine this and mulching would really improve south Florida's sandy soils and improve tree health.

Don't water those in the winter months when they are dormant. It might have root rot and that's why the leaves dropped.